5/9/2023 0 Comments The salt roads book![]() ![]() Ezili also inhabits Jeanne Duval, the black former actress who became mistress of poet Charles Baudelaire, and Meritet, a young prostitute in 300 AD who undertakes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. ![]() ![]() Mer is surrounded by a rising chorus of dissent and rebellion among the slaves, precursor to the rebellion that created Haiti. The main character inhabited by Ezili is Mer, a healer on a plantation on Saint Domingue and one of the slave women whose keening awoke the goddess. Ezili has no self-awareness, no memories and experiences, and shapes the world by inhabiting three different women. Hopkinson, who is widely respected for her fantasy writing, casts as her main character Ezili, an Afro-Caribbean goddess who is awoken by the mourning of three slave women following a stillbirth. The Salt Roads, the new novel from Toronto writer Nalo Hopkinson, is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of mythology and history, race and gender. ![]()
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